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The Los Angeles City Council held its regular meeting on October 21, 2026, taking votes on a public bank feasibility study, an automatic license plate reader (ALPR) use policy for the Department of Transportation, and technical updates to the fats, oils, and grease (FOG) ordinance. During public comment, residents and advocates provided testimony on the Riverwalk Project in Studio City, raised privacy concerns over ALPR contracts with Axon, and called for funding to address violence against Black women and girls. The council also deferred a major ALPR contract for LAPD and entered closed session to discuss litigation with Los Angeles County over the homeless services Continuum of Care.
It's important that everyone remembers it's a shared responsibility to maintain and protect our public spaces. We appreciate everybody picking up after themselves and making sure that if there is anything wrong with the place structure, that they report it right away so it can be addressed. Yes, this is Los Timitos. From the fourth floor of the rotunda in City Hall where I'm standing right now, you can see the rotunda floor made with more than 45 types of marble. In the center is a bronze Spanish ship representing the early Pacific explorers. And if you look up, you'll see figures in the dome representing things like government, education, and protection. And when it comes to protection, this fire season, Los Angeles brought in some experts of its own. For the 33rd year in a row, the government of Quebec has sent two super scooper planes to Van Nuys Airport, along with pilots and mechanics, giving firefighters a powerful tool from the air. On behalf of the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners and Los Angeles World Airport's Lawa, I am proud to welcome the return of the two Canada Air CL 415 super scoopers to their Southern California home at Van Nuys Airport. These two super scoopers behind me protect all of the 88 cities in the county of Los Angeles, in addition to our neighboring counties. These CL 415s have fought fire in Ventura and Orange Counties, and they're a valuable resource for us. For 33 years, Quebec has provided our county with these aircraft along with the skilled pilots and mechanics who operate and maintain them during peak fire season here in Los Angeles County. These aircrafts give our firefighters a powerful tool, but equipment alone cannot keep our community safe. Wildfire safety requires all of us to do our part. So we are we're happy to be here every year, and also for our Quebec pilots. It's uh a way to gain uh specialized uh expertise and training in a terrain that's uh that's certainly very different from Quebec. So every year uh the aircraft and the crews come uh to support Los Angeles County Fire Department in their firefighting efforts during the busiest firefighting season in the year. These are really model examples of our governments that are working together to protect our communities. Twenty-five years ago today, I was uh part of a uh Los Angeles uh fire department urban search and rescue team that was deployed to ground zero right after the 9-11 attacks. We are here to uh remember the incidents of 9-11, the lives that were lost, the people that were lost, but to also remember how we came together as a country. They were our neighbors at that moment, and we helped them. They went because people were trapped. They went because they recognized that people needed help. And they went because they were firefighters. There was a terrible sense of helplessness watching what was happening 3,000 miles away, wondering about people you cared about, well knowing that police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and so many others were running directly toward something the rest of the world was watching in horror. Today we're here at the Frank Hotkins Training Center, uh commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks on the Twin Towers. Uh we're uplifting and remembering all of the first responders, all of the people who stepped up to be brave to save people's lives, and to remind the generations that have come after the attack of what occurred so that we never ever forget what bravery looks like in this country and what it looks like for people to step up to save people. 9-11, 2001 was a very sad day. It was a terrible day in the history of our country and the history of the world. So we're here to thank everyone. We're here to honor everyone, and we're here to say we don't want this to happen again. We can't let this happen again. In the city now, we go on thousands of calls every day. We know that we're doing this to provide a service for our community. So as we're experiencing crises, as we're experiencing different horrors that intend to divide us, we must follow the steps of people from 9-11 and what they did and stick together and protect our communities. Oh, can you see by the downsylite? What's so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last clean. We are the city of Los Angeles with the Mayor's Office of Economic Opportunity, and we are here today to celebrate the kickoff of the Angelina Corps program for the 2026-2027 year. The Angelino Course Program is a tenth of month internship program. All 300 Angelinos who are here today are ages 18 to 30 who receive work experience for 10 months in one of the six sectors that we offer. A majority of the Angelinos that are enrolled into our program are in school. So it's hard, you know. Sometimes a lot of workplaces ask you to have two, three years' worth of experience. So the Angelino Core members program is awesome.